The Weight of Ink [Paperback]

WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
AUSA TODAYBESTSELLER

"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century,The Weight of Inkis the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. 
 
When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph."
  
Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Inkis about women separated by centuries—and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.  US

AUSA TodayBestseller  Winner of a National Jewish Book Award  Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award   An Amazon Best Book of the Year  Winner of the Boston Authors Club Award for Fiction One ofMs. Magazine's "Bookmark" Titles  One ofThe Jewish Exponent's "2017's Top Reads"   "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion." —Toni Morrison   "Rachel Kadish’sThe Weight of Ink is like A.S. Byatt'sPossession, but with more seventeenth-century Judaism...A deeply moving novel." —